‘There was a spark as soon as we met’

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Lindsay Duncan, 28, MBA student at Harvard business school, and Anurag Sharma, 32, investment banker, were married on June 10, 2011, in Chicago and August 13, 2011, in England

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Lindsay Duncan, 28, MBA student at Harvard business school, and Anurag Sharma, 32, investment banker, were married on June 10, 2011, in Chicago and August 13, 2011, in England

Last updated at 12:01AM, September 24 2011

Lindsay Duncan, 28, MBA student at Harvard business school, and Anurag Sharma, 32, investment banker, were married on June 10, 2011, in Chicago and August 13, 2011, in England

As an entrance it was unforgettable. Trumpets greeted the groom as he rode on a white horse into the grounds of Stoneleigh Abbey, the stately home which for 400 years was the seat of Jane Austen’s relatives, the Leigh family.

It is thought that the author, who visited Stoneleigh with her mother and sister in 1806, wove descriptions of the Warwickshire house and its grounds into Mansfield Park and Persuasion.

“It’s very English and we had 500 Indian people there,” says Anurag, who chose to marry in the abbey because he grew up not far from Warwickshire, in Walsall in